Yes, you're right - I create my icons starting from color: drawings for land, silhouettes for navy and view-from-above for aircraft. BTW, this is the great news within my icons: AFAIK no one else tried doing aircraft icons that resemble the original HoI2 ones, but ofc in colour and for each country
. The only one I can recall is kronoss, which made them for Germany. I took over his project and currently am about 60-70% done.What I have (regarding icons) is just a full set of land, naval and air models. Some were not made by me (more than 50%, as a matter of fact) but the grueling work I put into them was that I've reworked ALL of them (some 5300 [yes, thousand] icons) to have for all the same code, I mean: same position and colour for the tier indicator, same position for the national flag/symbol, same graphical code for paras/marines/mountain troops and so on. In addition, I've made a lot of them from scratch when I didn't like them or felt a better version was needed/possible. So you've got as an example the German HQ III (yeah, will change him and find another general from the army, don't worry
) and many more which would be too time consuming to list here. The grand innovation though, as I wrote before, are the aircraft: you can see two examples in the third screenshot here. BTW my airforce icons display what their countries used to paint on the wings or on the tail (those who did); that's why in that screenshot I had to cancel the symbols the Luftwaffe painted on the tail of its aircraft. In the "uncensored" version you'll get the whole thing, though .So that's it. Apart from that, I've got a fair deal of interface graphics, some skins (the German topbar, already included by TeutonburgerW, is an example of them), fonts for being able to write the... *cough cough*... symbol with the runes, some audio improvements (tired of the standard sounds for "message", "new tech" and "unit upgraded", as well as other sounds like the battle ones? We've got the solution... at least for some countries, at the moment
) and other stuff. We'll have to discuss this in dept in the next days... but now I'm going to watch the interior of my eyelids for a few hours - bye!Just saw some guys painting in the tunnel right outside me, as the good citizen I am, I scared them away, but I took a photo of it anyway.
Very nice, and thanks for the credit!
You can bet! I've even redone it in two different versions: bottom left and bottom right of the leader/minister picture. See how it looks in game and get it here. BTW, thank you bestmajor for encouraging me to improve to the point it is now! I must admit I'm rather happy of the result
.Ah, and thus...
...I think this could be considered no longer "in progress", right?
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As a final note, since a user asked me to send him the file and thus it is no longer a "secret", I post here for the MGM the redone supply and oil meters. A small addition which nevertheless makes those little bars much more readable IMHO. See how it looks here again. The two files, on the other hand, are here.
That's enough for today. Ah, from tomorrow I'll be back to my job
so I will unfortunately have much less spare time, but I'll try to be online at least some minutes every evening to check out how are things proceeding . Can't assure I'll always be able to, though. So keep up the good work TeutonburgerW, bestmajor and all other people - I do care!!! Titan
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